I'm starting really, really, really to like my yard.
When we bought the house, its entire floral output consisted of azaleas and rhododendrons, with a few half-hearted daffodils in the spring.
I've never really cared for rhododendrons, and I can't get crazy about the azaleas we have--I'm just not that into pink and salmon. (We have one white one that I like, except for how it looks for three weeks after it blooms, and we have a pretty red one that never seems to want to bloom at all. But we've got an ocean of salmon.)
But I've been slowly, slowly adding things that I like, and it's coming along nicely.
My favorite, I think, are the iris.
Last year, I planted nine rhizomes. Seven survived, but only one flowered, and that one only had two actual flowers.
This year, I have dozens.
They make me very happy.
I also have rosebushes, which also make me happy. They're all full of buds right now, and one has even burst into flower:
You gotta love a town where you can have roses in April. I don't think there are enough seminaries south of the Mason-Dixon line. Must work on that.
I've also put in some little things along the driveway.
Pinks:
and snapdragons:
The snapdragons are just annuals, of course, but the pinks are perennials.
I even have some herbs that bloom. Here are my chives:
Aren't they pretty?
What's blooming in your yard?
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My dad gave me a tiny little runner off of one of his lilac bushes about 6 years ago. It came to me in a half pint milk carton. I have waited and waited ... this year it finally gave me about 10 blooms ... I was so happy. Now the tulips are blooming and in about a month peonies will be out. I love spring.
I'm with you on the azaleas ... they are overrated.
Love the blooms on the chives. We have some, they come back every year bigger and bigger.
Snapdragons are my very favorite.
We've got a few hiacynths that come up annually, as well as plethora of daffordils, bluebelles and selected tuplips.
W're got a few azaleas, too, but I can't wait to get out and plant my annuals and my vegetables. THAT'S what I really love!
This year, we'll have vinca in the front, and impatients, tall grass and something vine-y in the back along the deck.
I will also plant tomatoes, bell peppers, japanese eggplant and I will attempt cucumbers this year. Question for them is: where do I let those climb?
Can't wait to plant - maybe this weekend!
Well, the deciduous trees are budding out. And there is a little green on the ground in the meadow as the new grasses and flowers just peek above the ground to make sure the snow is really gone.
At 7500 feet, that's pretty good for late April!
Oh how I love Iris'.
Yours are beautiful!!!Hey, we planted a flat of pinks but didn't know what they were. Perennial I hope?